So...I've been dicking around with these 5050 LEDs but it seems kinda limited. If all you can do is control an entire length of lights all the same way you can't do much with it. Don't get me wrong, having them illuminate behind a bigass TV doing visualizations for music is lovely but we're trying to look at what works in a fursuit.

Chameleons aren't one solid color no matter how their chromatophores are doing. The patterns on any real animal are rarely 100% symmetrical so why should these lights? I've ordered the addressable LEDs and they shipped today so hopefully I'll have them by week's end. Calculus is kicking my ass and it's only week two starting tomorrow (I'm screwing up on the algebra in ways that don't make any sense to me)...not sure I'll have time to do much beyond set up some example code and verify everything works. Maybe figure out the addressing system and pencil out some patterns.

Granted I'm shooting to have my side of things finished by BLFC so that Kyralie can have a new fancy tail to show off and that's only what, mid May? Oodles of time. But I'm soooo excited to actually work on electronics again! I used to burn so much time soldering parts into video game consoles either for modification purposes or for repair purposes and my interest in that crash and burned around this time last year (or earlier?). Hobbyist electronics were a passion of mine that I'm still trying to figure out why I put it aside.

Looking forward to producing something fun for a change. ^_^